Martin Buber and The Elements of the Interhuman Flashcards
He is an existentialist philosopher, where he expreience an early mismeeting (broken relationship). Attributed the lifelong preoccupation with nature of human mutuality.
Martin Buber
His mother left when he was a child
Martin Buber
He became absorbed in his thoughts on relationships and dialogues
Martin Buber
he was influenced by the existentialist thought in the early years of his life
Martin Buber
Prompted solely by the need of objective understanding. (Ex: class lectures, tutorials)
Technical dialogue
A dialogue where one is never aware of the other as something that is absolutely not
himself and at the same time someone with which he nevertheless
communicates
Monologue disguised as dialogue
A dialogue where only the ideas of one are getting across and the other one is not being listened to.
Monologue disguised as dialogue
A dialogue where either spoken or silent, each participant really has in mind the other in their present and particular being and turns to them with the intention of establishing a living mutual relation.
Genuine Dialogue
What dialogue show a sense of reciprocity, while showing factors of:
o acknowledging the other
o living mutual relationship
o comfortable silences among people
o recognizing the presence of others
o concern
Genuine Dialogue
It is a realm where one peculiar characteristic of the human world is that something takes place between one being and another.
The Realm of the “Between”
“between” what is it in tagalog?
pagitan
For example a situation where you see other people, meeting, relating, conversing, or relation?
Where does it take place, in the individual or the participant between them?
Participant between them
After that encounter of “may namamagitan”, the experience cannot be exactly divided between the
individuals. There will be a _____________.
remainder (the most essential from the encounter)
There will always be something that is ___ between the two
person; something that they will always ______.
left, share
What are the two factors of the social dimension of Intesubjective Relations?
- The Social Dimensions
- The Interpersonal/Interhuman
What is essential relation in the social dimension?
“We” relation
What has been reached by the “We” community of several independent persons?
a self and self-responsibility;
What is essential for a “We” community”
genuine communion
the ________ of one another and when the members set aside their _________
to work for a common goal
openness and differences
What is the defining quality of the “We”?
common goal
Though there is includes a Thou relation in the We relation, what is the moment when We is stopped from further growing?
When one of the member uses other for his own interest.
What is the meaning and examples of an individual existences that is contained and enclosed in a group of existence?
o belongingness and coexistence
o Ex: class, organization, party, etc.
It is the “I-Thou” relation or “I” and another Man (person)
The Interpersonal/Interhuman
In an interpersonal/interhuman, there is a ___________ __________, that exists among the members of the group
personal relation
What is essential for an interpersonal relation?
regard each other as a person, we are unique, and partners in every event of our life.
In an interpersonal/interhuman relation there must not be any form of 3 things and what is this?
Utilization. objectification and control
The interhuman is the life of dialogue; a _________ ________ of our inner selves
mutual sharing
What is the perception the martin buber that must first have before establising a life of dialogue?
“becoming aware”
this is when I perceive a person, not in an objective way, but I understand the he is addressing me and saying something to me
“becomign aware”
this person that says something to me is not my object; I perceive him not as a thing but as a man, as a person, and I am concerned about him.
“becoming aware”
acknowledgment of the entirety of the human person
“becoming aware”
What are the 3 elements of interhuman?
- Being
- Personal Making Present
- unfolding
The essential problem of the sphere of dialogue is the duality of ______ and ________
Being and Seeming
Type of existence of who we really are
Being
Type of existence where we are pretending
Seeming
They tend to project the image that they want or wish to impress
upon their audience and not their real selves.
Seeming
Why is there a need for being in a genuine dialogue?
Adherence to truth is essential to the establishment of an authentic and
honest personal relation
What is another important presupposition for the rise and establishment of genuine dialogue is the affirmation of the other as a person and as a unique and distinct personality?
Personal making present
One can only fully understand the other if he becomes “________ ________”
Personally present
Imagining the real means?
Making others present
It is important factors when it is to put oneself into the other’s shoes
▪ Empathy
▪ Imagining quite concretely what the other person is wishing,
feeling, thinking, and perceiving.
What are are two basic ways of affecting men in their views and attitudes about life?
Impositon and Unfolding
It is to force and impress one’s opinions, ideas and one’s own point of view upon the other in such a way that the latter feels that the result of his acts came out because of that influence.
Imposition
It is to help the other actualize himself.
Unfolding
what is the equation for a genuine dialogue?
Present Ourselves(being) + be empathetic to the other (personal making present) + never impose ourselves (unfolding) = genuine dialogue
